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Pakistan slams India over Kashmir remarks
Sep 18, 2019 (AFP)
The neighbours have been locked in an escalating war of words since New Delhi stripped Indian-administered Kashmir of its autonomy last month and imposed a secu...
US continues to arm Kurds in Syria: Pentagon
Sep 18, 2019 (AFP)
The US supplies the materials to Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) units to fight the Islamic State (IS) group, according to the Pentagon. "We continue to provide ...
UN extends Afghan mission after China 'Silk Road' veto threat
Sep 17, 2019 (AFP)
For 15 days China had wielded its threat, calling for the resolution to include a reference to President Xi Jinping's effort to reinvent the ancient Silk Road c...
Green Beret killed in Afghanistan
Sep 16, 2019 (UPI)
The U.S. Defense Department did not reveal the Green Beret member's identity but said he was killed in Wardak province while working with Afghan commando forces...
Screams in the night in Indian Kashmir
Sep 16, 2019 (AFP)
The alleged abuse, residents say, is aimed at creating a climate of fear after India stripped the long-restive, blood-soaked Himalayan region of its autonomy on...
US Senate presses action on China's treatment of Uighurs
Sep 12, 2019 (AFP)
The Senate unanimously approved the so-called Uighur Human Rights Policy Act late Wednesday. It still needs passage by the House of Representatives, which is hi...
Congress orders US Taliban negotiator to testify
Sep 12, 2019 (AFP)
Representative Eliot Engel, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a subpoena to force Zalmay Khalilzad to appear on September 19. The lega...
China slams US Xinjiang remarks as 'lies'
Sep 09, 2019 (AFP)
Speaking at Kansas State University last week, Pompeo said Washington would use this month's UN General Assembly to rally support for the Uighurs, a mostly Musl...
NATO's Afghan focus 'unchanged' despite US deal upheaval
Sep 09, 2019 (AFP)
On Saturday, President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled an imminent and then secret summit with Taliban leaders and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on a draft acco...
Sidelined young Afghans pen 'letters of pain' as war rages
Sep 07, 2019 (AFP)
A line in one missive, written in Dari and spelled out in huge letters, states simply: "We want peace," Sharifi says. "By peace, they just mean a ceasefire, jus...
'Orderly' foreign troop withdrawal sought from Afghanistan
Sep 07, 2019 (AFP)
The request follows a wave of insurgent attacks that sparked concerns of a hasty US pullout. "We shared the view that the withdrawal of foreign troops should be...
Taliban supporters cheer US withdrawal plans
Sep 06, 2019 (AFP)
While details of the deal have not been announced, it is widely expected the Pentagon will slash its troop presence in Afghanistan in return for various Taliban...
Afghanistan's women pioneers fearful as US-Taliban deal looms
Sep 06, 2019 (AFP)
Strictly patriarchal Afghanistan has long been one of the world's worst places for women, but for a relatively small group -- mainly in urban cores like Kabul -...
Pompeo says US to rally support for Uighurs at UN
Sep 06, 2019 (AFP)
Pompeo said that China's mass incarceration of the predominantly Muslim ethnicity will be a priority for the United States at the annual summit of world leaders...
NATO backs US Afghan peace efforts: Stoltenberg
Sep 03, 2019 (AFP)
Pompeo met NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels as Washington tries to finalise an agreement with the Taliban after 18 years of war, under which ...
Pompeo in Brussels to talk Afghanistan with NATO
Sep 02, 2019 (AFP)
Pompeo will talk about Afghanistan with alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday, a day after the US envoy leading efforts to strike a deal with t...
Pakistan grants India access to alleged spy on death row
Sep 02, 2019 (AFP)
"Consular access for Indian spy Commander Kulbhushan Jadhav, a serving Indian naval officer and RAW operative, is being provided on Monday 2 September 2019," tw...
Arrests jump in China's Xinjiang amid crackdown
Sep 02, 2019 (AFP)
One in five arrests made in China in 2017 took place in Xinjiang, although the region is home to just two percent of the country's population, data from the loc...
World Bank says 'no indication' China misused loan for Uighur schools
Aug 30, 2019 (AFP)
China's treatment of the Uighurs -- a mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking minority concentrated in the country's tightly-controlled northwestern Xinjiang region -- h...
China says Uighur award nomination is 'supporting terrorism'
Aug 29, 2019 (AFP)
Europe's top rights body has shortlisted Ilham Tohti, an economics professor who was sentenced to life in prison in September 2014 after being convicted of sepa...
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